Radio Days
By Robert Lanier, While young people today may not know that an old-time radio was once like a piece of furniture in virtually every household,…
Ixora Emerges as Launch Pad for Makers in Memphis
Community business incubator opens this week in Crosstown neighborhood COMMUNITY BUSINESS NEWS By Jeff Hulett and Mark Fleischer Owner and entrepreneurs Carla and Gil Worth…
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Dulaney’s Districts: Pinch-North Main
Dulaney’s Districts Putting neighborhoods on the National Register is an exhaustive, dedicated process. In this special series, the keeper of the Memphis Heritage Historic Properties…
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LRK Leads Crosstown Concourse to Highest Level of Fitwel Certification
Center for Active Design announces four groundbreaking projects advancing healthy design and development at neighborhood scale MEMPHIS—The Center for Active Design (CfAD), operator of the…
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Dulaney’s Districts: Vollintine Evergreen
Dulaney’s Districts Putting neighborhoods on the National Register is an exhaustive, dedicated process. In this special series, the keeper of the Memphis Heritage Historic Properties…
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Dulaney’s Districts: Town ofArlington
Dulaney’s Districts Putting neighborhoods on the National Register is an exhaustive, dedicated process. In this special series, the keeper of the Memphis Heritage Historic Properties…
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Central Gardens’ Historic Inventory to be Updated for a New Decade
A long-overdue update to the National Historic Register for the Central Gardens Historic District to begin in 2020 HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION By Mark Fleischer “I…
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No more ‘secret handshake’: Universal screening qualifies 600 more Memphis students for gifted education. More to come.
Originally published January, 2020. Feature Image: Kindergarten and first grade students in Treadwell Elementary’s new gifted education class compare each other’s height to get in…
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Off the Endangered List: The Clayborn Temple
Profile #4 in StoryBoard’s look at progress in historic preservation over the last decade HISTORIC PRESERVATION By Charlie Lambert In 2015, the historic and deteriorating…
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National Register Listings: Memphis Historic Neighborhoods
DULANEY’S DISTRICTS Putting neighborhoods on the National Register is an exhaustive, dedicated process. Here the keeper of the Memphis Heritage Historic Properties Catalogue gives us…
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What I Thought I Knew
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES By Mark Scott Memphis, I need to talk. Because after 32 years as a high school teacher in Memphis I thought I knew most, if not…
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